COVID and the GI Tract

Covid is the new great masquerader. It can present in many different ways. When it first presented in China in late 2019, most symptomatic patients had fevers and shortness of breath. The initial Wuhan population reported very few gi symptoms. In fact less that 5 percent experienced nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. But the U.S. experience…

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WTF Is Happening to My Digestive Tract When I Run?

In a lightly wooded area next to a running path. In a stranger’s bathroom. One hundred meters from the finish line. These are just a few of the places runners we talked to have admitted to, well, crapping out, during a run. And we don’t mean figuratively: Yep, we’re talking about poop. Harrison Glotman, 25,…

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